Keith Olbermann Mouths Off On National TV!

[Tref]

The reliably sedate and even-keeled, Keith Olbermann shocked viewers yesterday when he mouthed off during his MSNBC TV Show, declaring, "Bush (http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/George-Bush-Jr-Photograph-C10042275.jpeg) & Cheney (http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051117/051117_cheney_hmed_4a.h2.jpg) should resign!"

For link + video, click here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/)

For you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9th, 1974.

Resign.

And give us someone—anyone—about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, “I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”

[Scrooge McSam]

It's something to watch, isn't it?

Judge Walton had more to say also (http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/files/libby_3583.pdf).

Gotta love the footnote LOL

[scaeagles]

Olberman is even keeled?

[Scrooge McSam]

What do you want from a guy?

"Fair and balanced" is copyrighted, yeah?

[Strangler Lewis]

Given all the hard-assed independent (e.g., Jesse Ventura) to conservative hothead (e.g., Alan Keyes) hosts who have bombed on MSNBC over the last couple of years, it's interesting that Olbermann thrives.

[Alex]

He had the good sense to pick a fight with O'Reilly (and I don't mean that sarcastically; not being willing to tolerate O'Reilly is a sign of good sense) which gave people and the press a reason to talk about him and gave him exposure in a much larger audience.

[JWBear]

The reliably sedate and even-keeled, Keith Olbermann shocked viewers yesterday when he mouthed off during his MSNBC TV Show, declaring, "Bush (http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/George-Bush-Jr-Photograph-C10042275.jpeg) & Cheney (http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/051117/051117_cheney_hmed_4a.h2.jpg) should resign!"

For link + video, click here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588942/)

For you, Mr. Bush, and for Mr. Cheney, there is a lesser task. You need merely achieve a very low threshold indeed. Display just that iota of patriotism which Richard Nixon showed, on August 9th, 1974.

Resign.

And give us someone—anyone—about whom all of us might yet be able to quote John Wayne, and say, “I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job.”

You go, Keith!! :snap: :snap: :snap:

[wendybeth]

Wow- well said, indeed. Very nice thing to wake up to on this July 4th. Thanks, Tref!

Now, if Bush and Cheney resign, does that make AL Haig president?



:D

[JWBear]

Wow- well said, indeed. Very nice thing to wake up to on this July 4th. Thanks, Tref!

Now, if Bush and Cheney resign, does that make AL Haig president?



:D

No... Nancy Pelosi (http://www.speaker.gov/).

Wouldn't it be nice to hear "Madam President", and it not refer to Hillary?

[scaeagles]

No - it would be set up to have Cheney resign, Bush appoint a new VP - like Fred Thompson - then resign, making Thompson President and running from the stand point of an incumbant.

While I haven't seen any ratings in a while, doesn't he typically have less than 500K viewers on a nightly basis? Certainly more than Ventura or Keyes, but nothing to brag about.

[JWBear]

But the Senate would have to confirm the appointment. In the current political climate, that would be - to put it bluntly - a mess.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I would hate to have Pelosi as President.

[wendybeth]

I would enjoy the fallout, but ultimately I would probably be just as disappointed with her as I have been with some of her predecessors.

[sleepyjeff]

No - it would be set up to have Cheney resign, Bush appoint a new VP - like Fred Thompson - then resign, making Thompson President and running from the stand point of an incumbant.

While I haven't seen any ratings in a while, doesn't he typically have less than 500K viewers on a nightly basis? Certainly more than Ventura or Keyes, but nothing to brag about.

But the Senate would have to confirm the appointment. In the current political climate, that would be - to put it bluntly - a mess.

Not if Bush resigned first.....The Senate would confirm just about any one in short order if Cheney was President and said he would not resign until a VP was confirmed:D

[JWBear]

Not if Bush resigned first.....The Senate would confirm just about any one in short order if Cheney was President and said he would not resign until a VP was confirmed:D

Good point.